Should I Get More Training Before Starting my Reiki Business?
I am all over the place and never know what I want to do next with my life or my Reiki business. I thought about selling crystals, Reiki for hospice, and even other trainings like hypnosis or past lives. What should I look for when researching training? I’m seeing so many courses and prices. Why don’t I ever feel settled?
Thanks for this, and I can hear the uncertainty in your question. But please know that this kind of uncertainty is completely common, and not just with Reiki business. Yes, I've had this conversation plenty of times with Reiki practitioners on their Reiki business journey, but I also spent many years as a career coach for people from all walks of life, and the number of times I've had this conversation about "what to do with my life" is staggering.
Here's the real deal truth: all of those questions about what's your purpose or find your passion or sit quiet and let it come to you are actually kinda unhelpful. (Sorry, it's true.) Our interests and desires reveal themselves by doing, by being actively engaged and trying new things.
But here's the catch...when it comes to our Reiki business, so often we are jumping into new things because we feel like what we already have isn't good enough. We feel like Reiki by itself isn't good enough or we aren't a good enough practitioner or no one will want to buy from us if we don't have a bunch of letters after our name or a bunch of skills. This is simply not true. I am definitely an advocate for learning and growing and expanding our skill set. But so often we do this from a place of lack, a place of not feeling good enough, rather than a place of true interest.
My honest encouragement for you right now is to stop searching and go with what you got. Search your own current skills and start applying them in your life and Reiki business. Taking action leads to clarity and an awareness of more action to take. Before you plunk down time, money, and effort on a training that might not really interest you (especially an expensive one!), put into action the skills you already have and enjoy. You might even find that you don't want a bunch of letters after your name, after all. You might yet, but you'll have more awareness and clarity along with it.
I always recommend taking any training from a place of power, focus, and a vision for the future, rather than out of a feeling of disempowerment, fear, confusion, or imposter syndrome.
This is a very common challenge no matter what stage of the Reiki business journey we're at, whether the Nebula, Forest, or Tower — the three stages on the Reiki business journey. You can tune in to a free workshop recording sharing the three stages and helping you to discover which one you're in right now and how to navigate it. Click here to discover which stage you're at.
You may also want to join Build Your Reiki Business, a guided program to start and grow your aligned Reiki business, including helping you get clear on your values, which is essential on the Reiki business journey, including when we're considering any kind of training. Click here to learn more and start right now.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, but sometimes when we feel lost, it's because we're looking at all of the trees in the forest and trying to decide which one to climb to get a better view when really the view we got is pretty awesome already if we just open our eyes and move forward. Sending blessings to moving forward!
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